Willing Suspension Productions
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Willing Suspension Productions is an extension of the Boston University English Graduate program and was founded in 1993 at Boston University. Specializing in rare English Renaissance drama, the group has been responsible for launching the careers of several academicsincluding the group's principle founder, Andrew Hartley. Their 2006 production, The Maid's Tragedy, was their first play since their 1999 production, The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Willing Suspension Productions is notable for being one of the few theatre groups in the United States that specializes in rare English renaissance plays and for the unique workshop environment graduate students obtain through directing.
[edit] Productions
- The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton (1993)
- The Alchemist by Ben Jonson (1994)
- The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd (1995)
- A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton (1996)
- The Borderers by William Wordsworth (1996)
- James IV by Robert Greene (1997)
- The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (1997)
- The Malcontent by John Marston (1998)
- Christ Before Herod (1998)
- Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton (1998)
- The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont (1999)
- The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (2006)
- Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (2007)
- A Mad World, My Masters by Thomas Middleton (2008)
